Multimode regimes in quantum cascade lasers: From coherent instabilities to spatial hole burning

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Gordon, Ariel ^a   Wang, Christine Y ^b   Diehl, L ^b   Kartner F X ^a   Belyanin, A ^c   Bour, D ^d   Corzine, S ^d   Hofler G ^d   Liu, H C ^e   Schneider, H ^f   Maier, T ^f   Troccoli, M ^b   Faist, J ^g   Capasso, Federico ^b  

^a USA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^e NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^f FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SOLID STATE PHYSICS IAF   (Germany)

^g ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COATING TECHNIQUES; HOLE MOBILITY; MULTIMODE FIBERS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

COHERENT INSTABILITIES; FAST GAIN RECOVERY; RISKEN-NUMMEDAL-GRAHAM-HAKEN INSTABILITY; SPATIAL HOLE BURNING;

QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

EID: 43449088843     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.77.053804     Document Type: Article

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